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  US President - Anti-Monopoly Convention
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OfficePresident
HonorificPresident - Abbr: President
Type Primary Election
Filing Deadline 00, 1884 - 12:00pm Central
Polls Open May 14, 1884 - 06:00am Central
Polls Close May 14, 1884 - 08:00pm Central
Term Start March 04, 1885 - 12:00pm
Term End March 04, 1889 - 12:00pm
ContributorChronicler
Last ModifiedChronicler January 03, 2024 05:14pm
Data SourcesOhio Elects the President, p. 55; New York Times 5/1-18/1884
Description
The Anti-Monopoly Party held its only national nominating convention in 1884, and it generally merged with other parties in the general election that year.

The party was a child of the Anti-Monopoly League, an organization that opposed legislation that granted special favors to railroads. The League was organized in New York City and was holding periodic meetings as early as 1/6/1881 (New York Times, 1/7/1881). The League held a large gathering in New York City in the spring of 1881, generating a caustic exchange with the New York Tribune (Fall River Daily Herald, 4/1/1881). A New Jersey chapter ran candidates in the local Jersey City elections in early 1881 and performed better than expected. Thereupon, the party began to organize local chapters throughout the nation amidst grumblings by the Greenbackers that they had always been anti-monopoly (Vicksburg Herald, 8/9/1881). Scattered candidates in local elections of 1881 failed to win, although they indicated a degree of support that shook the two major parties.

The year 1882 was a time of organizing for the Anti-Monopoly Party. Its local chapters brought an organizational focus to both urban and rural areas around the nation. In the Plains states, the Anti-Monopolists generally supported the Greenback nominees, although they still held the local chapter meetings. State parties were organized in OH, KS, and IA on 6/14/1882 (Weekly Kansas State Journal, 6/15/1882). A na

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LAST GENERAL ELECTION
  PartyRepublican Won09/19/1881
NameChester A. Arthur Votes1 (100.00%)
Term09/19/1881 - 03/04/1885 Margin1 (+100.00%)
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  PartyDemocratic Won12/03/1884
NameGrover Cleveland Votes219 (54.61%)
Term03/04/1885 - 03/04/1889 Margin37 (+9.23%)
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RaceUS President 12/03/1884

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Name Gov. Benjamin F. Butler Sen. Allen G. Thurman Solon Chase  
PartyAnti-Monopoly Anti-Monopoly Anti-Monopoly  
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Certified Votes 124 (93.94%) 7 (5.30%) 1 (0.76%)  
Margin0 (0.00%) -117 (-88.64%) -123 (-93.18%)  
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